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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@RS_Naifeh

"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the VCs, not join them! Bring balance to the Web, not leave it in darkness!"

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RS_Naifeh

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I'm impressed by a Google Maps feature I just used for the first time. Walking around Manhattan, and it complained that location accuracy was low. Usually that's followed by it instructions for calibrating the accelerometer, involving a complex pas-de-deux with your phone.

This time it just asked me to point the camera at... basically anything. It instantly recognized my position from a random view on a random street.

While clearly it knew my approximate location, so the search space isn't unlimited, there could be different cars going by, etc. etc., not to mention an arbitrary field of view. I'm impressed.

Anyone have any details on how this computation is done?

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Is there an easy way to filter my feed(s) to include only toots written in English?

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Joshua Marshall

I’d been away from here for a few days. And the increased energy, critical mass is palpable

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planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

So true

RT @KylePlantEmoji@twitter.com

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/sta

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Max Headroom

Pecan pie is nature's most nearly perfect food.

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I'm not a paleontologist. I'd like to buy a trilobite fossil, just as a curio/conversation piece.

What's a good place to buy one where a complete n00b won't be ripped off?

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Eric's Risk Assessment

8. THE ALGO. Spend some time on mastodon instances. You notice its different. Ppl are polite. You interact, not yell. Its not combat. Its like the old Internet.

I withdraw from being a rage farmed engagement crop for eyeball monetisation

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Tom Lyon ✅

Annual #introduction #ComputerHistory

I'm a retired (3rd time) techie with an incredibly lucky career and family.

I'm most famous as being employee number 8 of #SunMicrosystems, and I got to work with the Bell Labs #UNIX team for a summer during the birth of V7 #UNIX.

My Silicon Valley career started with #Amdahl in 1978, followed by Sun for 12 years. I've since founded 4 startups (see profile).

I toot about #ComputerHistory; I've been there for much of it.

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PaulWrightyThen

Some random pieces #ConceptArt #MastoArt #Blender3d #SciFi

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pivic

:heart_fire:

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Former justice resigns from the SCOTUS Bar with a scathing rebuke of Roberts.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Jason Weiser

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

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Mastodon Migration VOTED

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

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A Concerned Scientist

@freemo

This sounds like something I talk about a lot, actually. Scientists, generally speaking, will have a method on how to do things. We're used to SOPs and process is often our thing.

The majority of the world doesn't think like that. If your instant and immediate reaction isn't what they want, then you're automatically against them.

I'm not going to write a novel, but look at how the non-scientists in the world handle information on things like COVID or climate change. If it changes, it's inherently bad in their opinion. Only the first opinion they heard matters, to a large number of people, and they'll go to the grave believing it.

TLDR; scientists and non-scientists often struggle with communication. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :)

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Max Headroom

How to improve something 1,000,000 X:

Humans understand complex things via layered abstractions. Many very accomplished people become an expert in one of these layers; you're either a great driver or you know how to tweak a fuel-injection system, but usually not both.

Each layer usually has a well developed set of tools & techniques, and a set of baseline assumptions about how they must connect to other layers. Whether the car is electric or ICE, it should have a "gas" pedal on the right, and a "brake" pedal in the middle. These well-defined boundaries are convenient and help reduce learning curves.

But, if you want to make a *big* improvement relative to the state of the art, the principle of diminishing returns becomes a formidable enemy. You can often pick up a factor of two, or even ten with a bit of effort. But if a really big leap forward was that easy to find, one of the experts would have noticed it already.

An alternative is to intentionally break the rules imposed by the abstraction boundaries. To define a narrower problem, that doesn't require the full generality of each boundary crossing. It's much easier to get 10X at each of six different problems (abstraction levels) than to get 10^6 at any one of them.

The downside is this approach tends to create "brittle" systems. They work astonishingly well, but only as long as whatever constraints you had to impose to puncture the abstractions hold.

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Hello everyone!

I'm a recent arrival, still figuring things out, but seems delightful so far!

About me:
* Electrical engineer (chiphead) by training.
* Software architect/dev-herder (of late) by vocation.
* Computational quantum chemist by avocation.
* Tool-builder by compulsion.

Designed chips, joined/lead a few startups, VC wannabe for awhile. Then the wavefunction collapsed.

Technophile.
Autodidact.
ADHD sufferer/beneficiary.
Burner (the Man).
Dysthymic.
Romantic.
Kitten foster Dad.

I learn differently than others.

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Jürgen "jkr" Kraus

Perspectives.

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Mike McHargue

This article is an excellent summary of the cultural differences between #Mastodon and #Twitter, and how the #TwitterMigration is decidedly complex for the existing people in the #Fediverse.

This is an absolute must read.

hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

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